From IoT to Cloud: An End-to-End Virtualization Approach

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) with the Cloud and Edge Computing infrastructures offers unprecedented opportunities for applications and services. Realizing such a holistic and large-scale platform requires a mixture of different technologies to enable the interconnection of the various functional layers of this new end-to-end (E2E) communication paradigm. Virtualization and specifically Network Function Virtualization (NFV), is the key enabling technology for creating and supporting an IoT-aware Edge-Cloud Computing infrastructure. In this tutorial session paper we study how to establish a scalable softwarized E2E solution that will gracefully combine different technologies to provide networking services with high Quality of Service (QoS) and low communication cost.